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Huawei is out of the Top 5 for the first time in many years, after suffering heavy declines under the increased weight of US sanctions.

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) officially launched on Friday, April 30, the national quick response (QR) code standard for consumer-to-business payments with PayMaya as the first financial technology firm in the country to adopt QR PH for merchants.

While much of the world is still dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic, sales of tablets and Chromebooks remain on fire.

The Department of Science and Technology and QBO Innovation Hub recently rewarded top-performing Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) that have demonstrated outstanding capabilities and produced impactful programs and startups during the TBI 4.0 Program.

PayMaya is now allowing Filipinos overseas to use their Philippine mobile SIM on roaming to register for a PayMaya account, enabling them to perform transactions such as paying government dues or utility bills, as well as sending money to other PayMaya users, even while abroad.

Pres. Rodrigo Duterte has appointed former DICT assistant secretary Ivin Ronald Alzona as the new executive director of the National Privacy Commission (NPC).

According to international streaming guide JustWatch, Netflix remains the market leader in the Philippines, followed by Prime Video and iflix.

Converge ICT is also linking the other islands in the Visayas region such as Panay, Negros, Leyte, and Bohol to its national backbone.

SSS will be issuing e-certificates to participants upon completion of any of the modules, if they obtain a passing rate of at least 80% in the post-examination conducted at the end of each module.

The Netpreneur Training Program is designed to equip entrepreneurs and business leaders with tangible and actionable steps they can take to advance in the digital economy, based on Alibaba’s own entrepreneurship journey.